RISC-V
Behold: 3D Windows games running smoothly on open source RISC-V
The felix86 project showed off 3D x86 games like Portal 2 and God of War running at decidedly playable levels thanks to new RISC-V hardware.
Self-Hosting
The self-hosted streaming app Feishin got a major update
Listening to music via Jellyfin, OpenSubsonic, or Navidrome? This app just got new themes and better organizing and reporting tools.
Jellyfin
Jellyfin has new versioning and AI code policies
Jellyfin is about to jump from version 10.11.x to 12.x, to avoid confusion.
Software Updates
FreshRSS just got a big upgrade
The open source and self-hostable news aggregator has better notification and article filtering controls, and feed icons can be directly fetched.
KDE
You can try KDE's new password manager now
KeepSecret, a replacement for KWalletManager, has been flying under the radar recently. You can install a lightweight early release now from KDE, though.
Software Updates
The Rust-based, GPU-accelerated spiritual successor to Atom has exited beta
Version 1.0.0 brings a better Markdown experience and more LLM access.
Software Updates
Open source gaming is literally looking better
Godot is gaining high dynamic range output capabilities with version 4.7, a feature that's been in development for years. Proper HDR rendering requires proper hardware, though.
RISC-V
QEMU has bad 32-bit news and good RISC-V news
Along with RISC-V extensions Zilsd, Zclsd, and ZALASR, free and open source QEMU version 11.0 is also enabling the emulation of more Arm CPU features.
KDE
Power users will love these new KDE app features
KDE Gear 26.04 brings keyboard shortcuts galore to the file browser.
Firefox
Firefox web apps on Linux are almost here. You can try them now
Just enable one flag and you can start Alt-Tabbing to your web apps.
Software Updates
An anti-AI fork of KeePassXC just appeared
While KeePassXC has officially started accepting LLM code contributions, the developers of KeePassChi have forked an earlier version and hope to keep it clean.
Software Updates
My favorite free pixel art app just got a big update
Pixelorama's game asset creation tools got an upgrade.